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| Chris Velazco / Washington Post: |
Nothing plans to roll out an early version of Nothing Chats, a Sunbird-based app that lets Phone (2) users send iMessages to iPhone contacts, on November 17 — Nothing, Sunbird and other upstarts are taking iMessage where it's never been before — Here's a glimmer of hope for anyone …
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| Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: |
To use iMessage via Nothing Chats, users must log in to their iCloud account, and iMessages will be sent via a virtual Mac mini, which may weaken data security — Nothing Chats will be exclusive to the Nothing Phone 2. — TL;DR — Nothing is launching a new messaging app called Nothing Chats on November 17.
More: MacRumors, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Supercharged
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
YouTube plans to require users to disclose when they have uploaded realistic-looking manipulated or synthetic content, including using its own tools, in 2024 — Site's creators who repeatedly fail to disclose AI use will face penalties — YouTube, the video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.'s Google … | Clive Cookson / Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind details weather forecasting AI model GraphCast AI, more accurate than the best conventional systems for three to 10 day predictions, an AI first — Google DeepMind's model beat world's leading system in 90% of metrics used and took only a fraction of the time
More: Science, Google DeepMind, TechCrunch, Telegraph, Engadget, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review, The Messenger, Gizmodo, TNW, Wired, and BGR
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| James Somers / New Yorker: |
A eulogy for coding, which has felt like an endlessly deep and rich domain, after LLMs swallowed bodies of knowledge and skills that take lifetimes to master — Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
More: Unite.AI and Voicebot.ai
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Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and r/MediaSynthesis
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Civitai, where users share AI models and AI-made images, including nonconsensual porn of real people, debuts a bounties feature and raised a $5.1M a16z-led seed — Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z, the influential Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early investor in Facebook … | Bloomberg: |
Epic v. Google: Google agreed to pay Samsung $8B from 2020 to 2023 to make Google Search, the Play Store, and Assistant the default on Samsung's mobile devices — - Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told — Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue down 12% YoY to ~$47.7B and net income up 11% YoY to ~$1.3B, and lowers its outlook for its components business to flat YoY — - It also revised down forecast for components business segment — Company beat average profit estimate in the September quarter
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| Reuters: |
Sources: for over six months, the FBI has known the identities of 12+ hackers tied to the MGM and Caesars breaches, baffling experts by the lack of arrests — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has struggled to stop a hyper-aggressive cybercrime gang that's been tormenting corporate America … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices, targeting up to 620K URLs — Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: data brokers collect and sell browsing data in greater detail than previously known, including on those in sensitive jobs — Campaigners warn proliferation of categories describing sensitive professions could leave users open to blackmail
More: 9to5Mac, Irish Council …, and Forbes
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| Reuters: |
Microsoft and Google do not plan to challenge their EU DMA “gatekeeper” status, before a November 16 deadline; sources say TikTok and Meta may file challenges — Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google will not challenge an EU law that would require them to make it easier … | Scott Patterson / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second — That's two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs — LEMONT, Ill.—Inside … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
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| CNBC: |
Sources: Airbnb acquires Gameplanner.AI, in a deal valued at just under $200M, to accelerate some of its AI projects, its first acquisition as a public company — - Airbnb has made its first acquisition as a public company, in a deal valued at just under $200 million, sources familiar with the deal told CNBC.| Nathan Grayson / Aftermath: |
Amazon restructures its games division to focus on free streaming games offered with Prime and eliminates 180+ jobs, the unit's second round of layoffs in 2023 — Video game workers just can't catch a break — Video game layoff season - an extension of what has basically …
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, CNBC, PC Gamer, The Information, Video Games Chronicle, Gamereactor UK, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Ghacks, KNSD-TV, Gameranx, Polygon, IGN, MobileSyrup, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, Game Rant, Seattle Business Journal, Stevivor, ComingSoon.net, Gizmodo, Neowin, GameSpot, Pocket Gamer.biz, Destructoid, Engadget, Thurrott, GeekWire, GamesIndustry.biz, Dot Esports, Game Developer, Kotaku, TheGamer, RAIN News, and Reuters
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Forums: r/newworldgame, r/gamingnews, r/gaming, r/Games, and Slashdot
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Unciphered, a company that helps recover cryptocurrency, finds a flaw affecting some wallets made before 2016 and says up to $1B of crypto is at risk of theft — A company that helps recover cryptocurrency discovered a software flaw putting as much as $1 billion at risk from hackers.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on how he changed tech gadget reviews, business strategy, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more — Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them. Inside the humble workshop …
More: The Verge. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …. X: @mkbhd and @mikehofman. LinkedIn: Farul Mohd Ghazali
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Khosla Ventures says it is raising a $500M seed fund, $1.6B venture fund, and $900M growth fund, larger than predecessors of $300M, $1B, and $550M, respectively — The fundraise is one of the largest completed by a VC firm this year, defying startup slump — Khosla Ventures is in the final stages …
More: Crunchbase News
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and executives, releases voluntary guidelines for startups to build AI responsibly, signed by Bain, IVP, and 33 other VCs — The new guidelines are part of an effort to enact some guardrails for potentially thousands of startups across the AI industry.
More: The Messenger
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Trump Media & Technology Group SPAC partner DWA's filing shows that Truth Social lost $73M on just $3.7M in net sales from its early 2022 launch through H1 2023 — The company that TMTG is planned to merge with, DWAC, broke out the surprising results in a securities filing Monday.
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LinkedIn: Patrick Mincey, Carol Raffi Tavares LidoAlbiza, and Daniel Tunkelang
Forums: Hacker News, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, r/Conservative, r/technology, r/politics, r/TimPool, r/Fauxmoi, r/DWAC, and r/uspolitics
| Tonya Riley / Bloomberg Law: |
Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups urge Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to not reauthorize FISA's Section 702, set to expire on December 31, 2023 — More than 30 civil liberties and privacy groups wrote to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday urging …
More: Wired, Wired, Washington Post, Cybernews.com, and Techdirt
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